Elizabeth A. Barnes
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Elizabeth A. Barnes | |
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| Occupation | Climate scientist, professor |
| Subject | Artificial Intelligence for science |
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Elizabeth A. Barnes is an American climate scientist. Barnes is best known for her work and expertise on the use of statistical methods to understand the variability of Earth's short- and long-term climate. Her work is characterized by an integration of both physics and computer science approaches. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.
Barnes grew up in Minnesota. She earned two bachelor's degrees, summa cum laude, at the University of Minnesota, where she studied mathematics and physics. She went on to earn a PhD in Atmospheric science from the University of Washington, where she specialized in eddy mean flow interactions of the midlatitude jet stream. Following her graduate studies, Barnes accepted a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Global Change post-doctoral fellowship, located at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.
